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...allowing the Communists to grow to power in China ... I believe we will pay for it, for a century." MacArthur did not explore in detail the how & why of the great error. That task is undertaken in an angry, hardhitting book published last week-The China Story, by Freda Utley (Henry Regnery Co.; $3.50)-A British-born, U.S.-naturalized ex-Communist whose Russian husband vanished in the Soviet purges of the 30's, Author Utley is a seasoned, firsthand observer of China events: her 1947 book, Last Chance in China, was a prophetic, little-heeded account of how Communism...
...Little, Too Late. In its white paper of 1949, the U.S. State Department sidestepped responsibility for the fall of China; nothing the U.S. did or might have done, said the State Department, could have altered the outcome. Author Utley sweeps aside this contention...
John K. Fairbank, professor of history, is labeled "a longtime apologist for Communist China" in the current issue of TIME magazine. The statement appears in a four page review of "The China Story," by Freda Utley...
TIME elaborated, "The diplomats, says Utley, were buttressed by 'a minority of writers, professors, and lecturers, representing the Chinese Communist views of the State Department.'" Fairbank was included in this list...
This is a position that many U.S. readers are reaching by themselves, on the basis of news reports from China. Miss Utley's contribution to it would have been more valuable if it ran to less I-told-you-so, and was stripped of strident strictures against those who fail to agree with her at every point...